Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Johnson Space Center Collection
Title:
Astronaut Alan Bean flies the Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment
Description:
Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, flies the M509 Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment in the foreward dome area of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) on the space station cluster in Earth orbit. Bean is strapped in to the back-mounted, hand-controlled Automatically Stabilized Maneuvering Unit (ASMU). This ASMU exerperiment is being done in shirt sleeves. The dome area where the experiment is conducted is about 22 feet in diameter and 19 feet from top to bottom.
Date Taken:
1973-08-18
Program:
Skylab
Mission:
Skylab III
Subject Terms:
ASTRONAUTS
Subject Terms:
UNITS
Subject Terms:
SPACEBORNE
Subject Terms:
EXPERIMENTS
Subject Terms:
SPACE
Subject Terms:
MANNED
Subject Terms:
3
Subject Terms:
PROGRAM
Subject Terms:
TESTING
Subject Terms:
MANEUVERING
Subject Terms:
SKYLAB
Subject Terms:
ORBITAL
Subject Terms:
STATIONS
facet_who:
Alan Bean
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Skylab
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Photo ID:
SL3-108-1304
Film Type:
35mm
UID:
SPD-JSC-SL3-108-1304
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Astronaut Alan Bean flies the Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment